Impact of birth weight on adult-onset diabetes mellitus in relation to current body mass index: The Japan Nurses' Health Study

Impact of birth weight on adult-onset diabetes mellitus in relation to current body mass index: The Japan Nurses' Health Study

Although birth weight is considered as a fetal determinant of the development of adult-onset diabetes mellitus (DM), its public health importance relative to adult body mass index (BMI) remains unclear. We aimed to examine the association between adult-onset DM and birth weight in relation to adult...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of epidemiology 2017-09, Vol.27 (9), p.428-434
Hauptverfasser: Katanoda, Kota, Noda, Mitsuhiko, Goto, Atsushi, Mizunuma, Hideki, Lee, Jung Su, Hayashi, Kunihiko
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Adult
Age
Age of Onset
Birth Weight
Body mass
Body Mass Index
Childbirth & labor
Cohort Studies
Confidence intervals
Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus
Diabetes Mellitus - epidemiology
Female
Fetal development
Fetuses
Gestational age
Health risk assessment
Humans
Japan - epidemiology
Medical personnel
Middle Aged
Nurses
Nurses - statistics & numerical data
Original
Pregnancy
Public health
Regression analysis
Small for gestational age
Type 2
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Zusammenfassung:Although birth weight is considered as a fetal determinant of the development of adult-onset diabetes mellitus (DM), its public health importance relative to adult body mass index (BMI) remains unclear. We aimed to examine the association between adult-onset DM and birth weight in relation to adult BMI. We conducted a self-administered questionnaire as a baseline survey of the Japanese Nurses' Health Study cohort between 2001 and 2007. Exclusion criteria were applied to the volunteer sample of 49,927 female nurses (age
ISSN:0917-5040
1349-9092
DOI:10.1016/j.je.2016.08.016